Microbial Diagnostic Array Workstation (MDAW): a web server for diagnostic array data storage, sharing and analysis

Background: Microarrays are becoming a very popular tool for microbial detection and diagnostics. Although these diagnostic arrays are much simpler when compared to the traditional transcriptome arrays, due to the high throughput nature of the arrays, the data analysis requirements still form a bottle neck for the widespread use of these diagnostic arrays. Hence we developed a new online data sharing and analysis environment customised for diagnostic arrays. Methods: Microbial Diagnostic Array Workstation (MDAW) is a database driven application designed in MS Access and front end designed in ASP.NET. Conclusion: MDAW is a new resource that is customised for the data analysis requirements for microbial diagnostic arrays. Background Although microarrays were originally developed and mostly used for applications like gene expression profiling and Comparative Genome Hybridizations (CGH)[1], recently they are becoming more popular for diagnostic applications like microbial identification a...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: SCFBM
• Authors: Joy Scaria, Aswathy Sreedharan, Yung-Fu Chang
• Keywords: Data Analysis Requirements, Diagnostic Arrays, Microbial Diagnostic Arrays, SCFBM 2008